Weakland Cast in Bronze

Here's a link to a local Milwaukee news outlet commenting on a controversial bronze image appearing inside Milwaukee's Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist that depicts Archbishop Rembert Weakland as a protector of children. Anyone even remotely familiar with the details of Archbishop Weakland's tenure ought to be outraged. Will the leadership tolerate this?

...Weakland commissioned charitable money to be used to create a bronze relief of himself pictured in the biblical scene of Jesus protecting the little children (the relief is on the pedestal of the Mary, Mother of the Church Shrine, which is on the east side altar of the cathedral); ...[In the Weakland bronze relief, which serves as a pedestal to the Mary, Mother of the Church Shrine and is the Cathedral’s east side altar, Weakland is flanked by St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne, the mother of Mary. Also in the background of the relief, according to Chicago artists Jeffrey and Anna Koh-Varilla , is a portrait of the Cathedral’s current rector, Fr. Carl Last. A recent email by Anna and Jeffery Koh-Varilla, confirms that the relief was meant to bring the biblical scene into the contemporary world of the Milwaukee church by placing Weakland in it [as protector of children].